What is the medium that sounds waves travel through when a person speaks

Figure 9 on page 362 shows various motions of balls. the curved path followed by the yellow ball in b in picture b is result of a) inertia b) centripetal motion c) gravity and horizontal velocity d) linear motion

Light from the sun reaches the earth in 8.3 minutes. the velocity is 3.00 x 10^8 m/s. how far is earth from the sun? i know how to get to d = (3 x 10^8 m/s)(498 sec). i just don't know how to get from there to the answer being 1.5 x 10^11 m.

A40.0 l tank of ammonia has a pressure of 12.7 kpa. calculate the. volume of the ammonia if it’s pressure is changed to 8.4 kpa while its temperature remains constant.